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  • Bad Acts and Guilty Minds

    Conundrums of the Criminal Law

    by Leo Katz ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Justice
    The author of Ill-Gotten Gains uses philosophy and psychology to examine how human behavior can be questioned under criminal law.Henri plans a trek through the desert. Alphonse, intending to kill Henri, puts poison into his canteen. Gaston also intends to kill Henri but has no idea what Alphonse has been up to. He puncture's Henri's canteen, and Henri dies of thirst. Who has caused Henri's death? ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Punitive Imagination

    Law, Justice, and Responsibility

    by Michelle Brown, Patricia Ewick, Stephen P. Garvey, Leo Katz, Caleb Smith, Carol S. Steiker ...
    Presents a thought-provoking collection of five essays that explore the purposes and meanings of legal punishment in the United States, both culturally and sociallyFrom the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Chasing Gideon

    The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice

    by Karen Houppert ...
    The Washington Post reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the nation's crisis of indigent defense—"a hugely important book" ( New York Law Journal).A Nieman Report's Top Ten Investigative Journalism Books of 2013First published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed all criminal defendants the right to legal counsel, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Police Problem Solving

    by Quint Thurman, J.D. Jamieson ...
    Offering a balanced approach to problem-solving issues in a complex and changing world, this book focuses specifically on the subject of problem solving in policing. Featured selections include chapters on domestic security, disorderly youth, auto theft, prostitution, gang delinquency and crime in public housing. Other notable selections discuss the role of supervising police personnel engaged in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Legality and Legitimacy

    by Carl Schmitt, John P. McCormick ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Seitzer ...
    Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment political thought and liberal political practice remain as shocking and significant today as when they first appeared in Weimar Germany. Unavailable in English until now, Legality and Legitimacy was composed in 1932, in the midst of the crisis that ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • EYE CONTACT- The Mysterious Death in 2000 of Kassidy Bortner & the Wrongful Convictions of Chad Evans and Amanda Bortner Volume 2: Letters from Chad Evans to Morrison Bonpasse in 2010

    by Morrison Bonpasse ...
    This is Volume 2 of the book, "EYE CONTACT - The Mysterious Death in 2000 in Maine of Kassidy Bortner and the Wrongful Conviction of Chad Evans and Amanda Bortner." Volume 1 tells the story of the wrongful convictions of Chad and Amanda and the campaign for exoneration. This volume 2 contains the letters from Chad Evans to his advocate, Morrison Bonpasse, during the year 2010. These letters tell ... Read more

    $1.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law

    Volume II

    Edited by David Flaherty ...
    Series Book 2 - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    This volume is the second in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history. In combination, these volumes reflect the wide-ranging scope of legal history as an intellectual discipline andencourage others to pursue important avenues of inquiry on all aspects of our legal past.Topics include the role ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • What Went Wrong With Money Laundering Law?

    by Peter Alldridge ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book surveys the development of laws surrounding the crime of money laundering and the associated changes in the anti-money laundering (AML) industry. The policy of attempting to deal with crime by attacking its financial products started in the arena of drugs, but quickly moved to organised crime, terrorism, corruption and tax. Now the focus has shifted once again to organised crime and to ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945–1952

    Allied War Crimes Prosecutions

    by Yuma Totani ...
    This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that the Allied powers held against the Japanese in the aftermath of World War II. More than 2,240 trials against some 5,700 suspected war criminals were carried out at 51 separate locations across the Asia Pacific region. This book analyzes fourteen high-profile American, Australian, British, and Philippine trials, including the two ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Case for Capital Punishment

    by Alfred B. Heilbrun Jr. ...
    As a punishment for our most serious crime—the intentional killing of a victim in an egregious way—the death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views. One view says that the state should never execute a criminal no matter what the crime may be. The other view requires execution as justice is sought for the victim. This book considers a third possible view: capital punishment should be ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Geometries of Crime

    How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice

    by Avi Brisman ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice system, as well as their place within it. The book proposes tools for developing a more elaborate and robust understanding of what constitutes ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Freach and Keen Murders

    The True Story of the Crime That Shocked and Changed a Community Forever

    by Kathleen P. Munley, Paul R. Mazzoni ...
    In November 1973, William J. Wright, a former patient and trustee of the Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, brutally murdered two teenage boys, Edmund Keen and Paul Freach, in Lackawanna County, a region that took great pride in not only its history, but its reputation as a friendly, family-oriented, safe place to live. It was a place where families could leave their doors unlocked, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD